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by bell-cot 3mo ago
It'll take a while after the pipes emit horrid gurgling sounds - and no more water - before most people start getting "reasonable" about this.
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
I lost interest about where the NYT's "js disabled" censor cut off my access. My far shorter take: 1 - Barring actual medical need, do not be a (less conservative) outlier in your workplace. 2 - Unless you're openly tryi
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Compared to Amazon and other e-tailers with hundreds of thousands of sku's of computer & internet-connected electronic stuff, 99% of which they do nothing whatever to curate? Yes. But that's kinda like saying that Random Po
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
The same ways that you have to combat fudged scientific data and didn't-write-it authors and lazy reviewers and hate from people who are in the opposite school on the whole Alzheimer's Amyloid issue and shite-quality citatations a
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
I'd downvote Reuter's reputation here. The very low water, and drought behind it, are major problems for millions of people. And quite a few European nations. Vs. their clickbait "Nazi warships" headline? Yeah. Per
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> The problem is that everyone imagines ... I'd phrase it "most people want to imagine". Or will claim they want to - since not believing sounds depressing, or suggests that the person is an evildoer hoping to escape just
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Compared to the big e-commerce retailers, Costco's total number of sku's isn't even a rounding error. And most of Costco's sku's are food, clothing, housewares, bulk consumables, and such - vastly easier to test and
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> What is being litigated is whether an irrigation district chartered to serve farms can lawfully decline to serve an industry, and whether fallowing counts as conservation when the county is the buyer but not when a data center is. ...
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Reliability generally isn't an issue with higher-end IBM hardware. The comparison I'd make goes back to 1980, when IBM forced Intel to license other companies to produce 8088 CPU's, so they'd have backup sources for the
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> This simply removes liability without reducing objective risk If that liability change kept more health care facilities and providers going in rural areas - then, compared to current trends , it would greatly reduce the risk. > ...
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
If it was a predictable & reliable 300k, 30k, 300k, 30k, 300k, 30k pattern, then yes. But if not...
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> Rural family doctors can and do still deliver babies in the absence of ob-gyns. But the proportion of generalist doctors willing and trained to do so has been declining for decades. Many family physicians I met while touring rural area
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> “Preliminary investigation shows that two of Link’s three reaction wheels currently are not operable, and there is some loss of functionality in its cold gas thruster system,” NASA said. ("Link" is the name of the rendezvous-
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> ...all out in the open exposed to dirt... Back in the day, I suspect they'd have covered much of that with tin* or wood, to cut down on cleaning, maintenance, & wear. *Meaning "cheap, thin sheet metal"
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Not an expert, but... As Wikipedia partly mentions, Shay designs were very well suited to low-speed operation on dirt-cheap (often temporary) tracks. That generally meant narrow-gauge, light rail & iffy roadbed, tight curves, and steep
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Far closer, because (my impression) the F-16 has nothing resembling the targeting systems you'd want for this job. Hopefully a decent defense contractor or few sees business opportunities here.
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Thanks. With the relative speeds, I'd guess the Falcons would use an attack profile similar to ground strafing - letting them pass well above the cloud of debris. Any thoughts? Also, Wikipedia gives a 3km effective firing range for t
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
The France24 article says the drone was shot down over the Black Sea.
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Yeah, obviously F-16's & humans scale very poorly for this. However: - At one-a-day scale, political and risk considerations probably favor the expensive solution. - Using F-16's reveals nothing about your current anti-drone
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Points to Romania for shooting it down, over the Black Sea but within their airspace. But if they actually needed an F-16 to do the job (vs. that being a cover story, or good politics, or their least-revealing option)...yeah. They might
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> Test sites in Oman, as well as facilities in Utah and Colorado, have demonstrated the capacity to boost natural precipitation by up 15% or more, Seidl said. > “We guarantee 10%,” he said. > The company is trying to sell its units
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
A Ph.D. in what? Machine learning? Political Science? Ancient Babylonian Literature?
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
True, but: Consider how many rocket development efforts squandered 10X to 100X the money, and >8 years, without making it to orbit. Using solid fuel for their first 3 stages also makes it far easier. I'd take that as evidence of
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Look back at the grandparent comment. If someone doesn't have 3-5 years in total savings, then they had better not try to retire.
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
Not an aerospace engineer - but that sounds like a lot of extra cost/complexity/weight, for pretty minimal benefit.
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> ... my vote ... is for universal healthcare. The only real downside to it is that a bunch of companies that have entrenched their positions taking advantage of ordinary people will be denied a little profit. Make that "many, many
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> "Solves" is a silly thing to ask for... Maybe? If testing of their remains had revealed (say) LD95 of arsenic, or some other poison well-known at the time, it'd be pretty reasonable to call that "solved". (At
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
The pedantic answer is "yes". The pragmatic answer is "if only it was that easy" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria#Immune_system_evasion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
tl;dr; - Scientists did DNA testing on the remains of the Grand Duke and his wife, and found malaria. The rival theory is poisoning by the relative who was next in line for the Ducal throne. HOWEVER, this test result solves nothing: >
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by bell-cot 3mo ago
> ... the Y-Zipper, a 3D-printed, three-sided fastener that can snap a floppy, flexible structure into a rigid, load-bearing beam with one smooth pull. Not a mechanical engineer, but I'd figure both the "rigid" and "l

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